most of the effects you added are fine, but some detract from it imo.like the mischievous grin and glance shot of that black kid. I think it was more effective when it was silent. others such as the ketchup seem too loud to me.

You should do a post on Sound as it relates to animation John. Id love to know the process on how you integrated music into your work. Do you time out the animation to the score or vice versa. Especially on R&S, were all those scores made for the show or did you buy them? Our school has MSoft, a royalty free music and sound effects library that I use from time to time, but it isnt very extensive. Flash Kit is pretty weak too. Id love to hear more about your process!

Sound effects CDs are available from Amazon, people.The key to a funny sound effect seems to be perfect synch coupled with a certain inaccuracy in the nature of the sound: it can be subtle, as in Jaqcues Tati films, or broad, as in Hanna Barbera, who have maybe the cartooniest sounds of all: practically all musical. The sound used doesn't even need to sound remotely like reality as long as the synch is perfect.

I love the old Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera sound effects! In fact, I love them so much, I even have CDs of them, including the professional $500 CD sets from Sound Ideas, which I'm betting you used here. I often use these SFX in some of my productions, and in the future when some of my friends and I open our own cartoon studio we will use the effects there.